Maya huipil from San Lucas Toliman, a town near Lake Atitlan Guatemala Photo: Karen Elwell
Over the last few months I've really enjoyed the regular additions to Karen Elwell's Flickr set covering textiles vast region covering Mexico and Guatemala. It's a veritable gateway in a world of creation and culture in Mexico and Guatemala. You can view her photos of textiles from Guatemala here.
Karen has been studying textiles from Guatemala and Mexico for the last 20 years, and has been working with Bob Freund for the last two years contributed to his massive site- the Mexican Indigenous Textiles Project- on textiles from the same region.
Karen and Bob's great work made me think of the work here in the UK undertaken by the Guatemalan Maya Centre in London founded by Krystyna Deuss and curated by Jamie Marshall.
Karen has been studying textiles from Guatemala and Mexico for the last 20 years, and has been working with Bob Freund for the last two years contributed to his massive site- the Mexican Indigenous Textiles Project- on textiles from the same region.
Karen and Bob's great work made me think of the work here in the UK undertaken by the Guatemalan Maya Centre in London founded by Krystyna Deuss and curated by Jamie Marshall.
